A song about an imaginary cat made me cry today. Weird huh? The song is called “Virtute The Cat Explains Her Departure” by Canadian indie outfit The Weakerthans. The album is curiously called “Reunion Tour” (at no point did they disband since the last album) and was one of my...

I got into a lot of new music watching extreme sports movies, especially Mack Dawg and the Total Board snowboarding series. Groups like Weezer, Method Man and Red Man, Sick Of It All, Thumb, Black Eyed Peas (before Fergie ruined them), Greyboy, and my absolute favourite, Incubus. I remember it like it was...

As Easter approaches, so to does the East Coast Blues & Roots festival, held in Byron Bay every Easter long weekend. This year its going to be massive, with the likes of The Black Crowes, John Butler Trio, Wilco, Jeff Martin, Sinead O’Connor, Keith Urban, Eskimo Joe, Maceo Parker, Don McLean, Gotye,...

For those who don’t know, the Big Day Out is an annual music festival touring Australia and New Zealand. It orginated in Sydney in 1992, and has since grown to include Melbourne, the Gold Coast, Adelaide, Perth and Auckland. I’ve been regularly attending the Gold Coast BDO for more years than I...

Lucky for me, I am just young enough to miss the phenomenon of touring international acts skipping Brisbane on their Australia tours. Being the third largest city in the country, it seems to me that would have made these so-called “tours” rather abrupt. After spending the better part of a day at...